No, I'm saying putting yourself into that position of glorified elitism only displays a striking pretentiousness. Recommendation & personal acclaim for one's posts does nothing for a forum.Sometimes the choice and order of indulgent words may help, other times stripping a post of any irrelevance strengthens the point at hand. I chose the latter.

No, I'm saying putting yourself into that position of glorified elitism only displays a striking pretentiousness. Recommendation & personal acclaim for one's posts does nothing for a forum.Sometimes the choice and order of indulgent words may help, other times stripping a post of any irrelevance strengthens the point at hand. I chose the latter.

You ninny - I was praising Joe, not myself!! :

As for your justification for your rudeness - well, it sounds lame -- hey, it is lame! There ya go!

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I've read some old posts from Joe K. And if he's gone, this board has lost yet another good poster.

I know I'll draw fire for this: but here goes. This board has a right strong collection of mean-spirited people. Not all of course, but enough to ensure a constant low hum of bickering and sniping.

And just to head some of you off at the pass: Charlie fired the first shot in our war. If you go back to the thread where it all started, you'll see I gave a view about ideas taking off on the internet. The reply from Charlie was "F*ck You". No man can allow that sort of stuff, so it was on. Notice however, that at no stage did I swear or use profanities. I just chopped him to pieces with words and logic. And now he's gone. The board feels better, but gee I wish some others would go so we could talk about Beatles, and Beatles only.

I've read some old posts from Joe K. And if he's gone, this board has lost yet another good poster.

I know I'll draw fire for this: but here goes. This board has a right strong collection of mean-spirited people. Not all of course, but enough to ensure a constant low hum of bickering and sniping.

And just to head some of you off at the pass: Charlie fired the first shot in our war. If you go back to the thread where it all started, you'll see I gave a view about ideas taking off on the internet. The reply from Charlie was "F*ck You". No man can allow that sort of stuff, so it was on. Notice however, that at no stage did I swear or use profanities. I just chopped him to pieces with words and logic. And now he's gone. The board feels better, but gee I wish some others would go so we could talk about Beatles, and Beatles only.

Talking about how great a poster Joe was and your lack of profanity? Well, here's an old post from Joe that you obviously missed. This wasnt even the post where he threw the 'F' bombs at us and put down the entire forum (he must have deleted that one), but here you go.

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Quoted from Joe_Karlosi, posted August 25th, 2004, 10:28 at here

You've already long ago made me sick, you jerk. I also love your bullsh*t about "he was only kidding". I'm so sick of a**holes like you who make comments or insinuations and insults, and then hide behind the "duh..... I was only kidding" remark after they're called on it. You mean I can say your mother is a whore, as long as I do it in a jokey way? I don't think so. Yeah, there's "something wrong with me" all right -

Tkitna, I think it's pretty clear that Joe was DEFENDING himself. He was giving back what was being laid down on him.

I've got nothing especially against swearing: my point was that the first thing Charlie said involved an inappropriate "F*ck You". I didn't reply likewise. But no-one could have blamed a response imitating Charlie's abusive lines. Instead, I chose a method Charlie wouldn't really understand: logic. He knew he was being chopped - he just couldn't return it.

Joe clearly chose a different way. That's fine. But I notice that his logic was brilliant too!